Home Assistant's Xiaomi Miio integration

Xiaomi Miio is an integration for Home Assistant, an open-source home automation software. It is the link between Home Assistant itself, and your Xiaomi smart devices.

Except I don’t want my network traffic routed to some server up in China or wherever when I’m at home, and the device itself is at home, as it makes for a meaningfully longer turnaround time, and is probably a privacy hole too. (The next step is cutting off “phone home” traffic from these devices, but story for another day.)

I have 6 of these smart devices, 2 of which are air purifiers of the same model (ID). Unfortunately, only the vacuum is supported out of the box, and I really wanted to be able to manage my air purifiers via Home Assistant.

At the “unsupported model” dialog, I tried using instead the Model ID listed in the rightmost table column below, and it worked; e.g.,

I’ll probably continue exploring alternative model IDs, but just the air purifiers for now: